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January 14, 2021
Distant affected person monitoring, cloud-based platform companies and cell, AI-enabled ultrasound diagnostics to assist improved entry to care and higher outcomes in fertility remedy
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a world chief in well being expertise, at the moment introduced a multi-year partnership with Merck, a number one science and expertise firm, to develop clinical-grade digital options for extremely customized fertility remedy. Leveraging digital well being applied sciences, superior informatics and cell, AI-enabled ultrasound diagnostics, these options will intention to raised inform sufferers and clinicians concerning the selection and timing of fertility remedy to maximise the possibilities of conception.
“At Philips we’re main digital transformation in healthcare, with a portfolio that features options for each professionals and customers to assist parents-to-be by way of being pregnant and the primary years of their child’s life,” stated Jeroen Tas, Chief Innovation & Technique Officer, Royal Philips. “The journey for aspiring dad and mom is typically a tough one, and by collaborating with Merck, a world chief in fertility remedy, we intention to develop built-in digital options that enhance the affected person expertise and might finally have a optimistic affect on well being outcomes. This partnership builds on our experience in maternal and fetal monitoring, our Being pregnant+ and Child+ shopper engagement apps, our main ultrasound options and our HealthSuite Cloud/AI platform.”
“We imagine that the way forward for IVF will likely be unlocked by way of digital well being applied sciences that empower professionals and sufferers to be higher related,” stated Michelangelo Canzoneri, International Head of Digital and Knowledge, Healthcare at Merck. “With Philips, we’ve got a companion that shares our perception within the potential of digital well being to enhance the affected person expertise, bringing a wealth of expertise in related care to our providing. Collectively, this collaboration will push our two firms to suppose past tomorrow and uncover new options that may empower folks to understand their goals of parenthood,” added Jan Kirsten, Head of International Enterprise Franchise for Fertility at Merck.
Digital well being and digital care applied sciences have proved invaluable throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in holding sufferers and their care groups in digital contact, accelerating digital transformation in healthcare. Digital applied sciences together with distant affected person monitoring, cloud-based companies and AI are enjoying an ever extra necessary half in attaining higher affected person outcomes, higher affected person and workers experiences, and low value of care – the quadruple intention of healthcare.
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About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a number one well being expertise firm centered on bettering folks’s well being and enabling higher outcomes throughout the well being continuum from wholesome residing and prevention, to prognosis, remedy and residential care. Philips leverages superior expertise and deep scientific and shopper insights to ship built-in options. Headquartered within the Netherlands, the corporate is a pacesetter in diagnostic imaging, image-guided remedy, affected person monitoring and well being informatics, in addition to in shopper well being and residential care. Philips generated 2019 gross sales of EUR 19.5 billion and employs roughly 81,000 staff with gross sales and companies in additional than 100 international locations. Information about Philips might be discovered at www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Merck
Merck KGaA, a number one science and expertise firm, operates throughout healthcare, life science and efficiency supplies. Round 57,000 staff work to make a optimistic distinction to hundreds of thousands of individuals’s lives on daily basis by creating extra joyful and sustainable methods to stay. From advancing gene modifying applied sciences and discovering distinctive methods to deal with essentially the most difficult illnesses to enabling the intelligence of gadgets – the corporate is all over the place. In 2019, Merck generated gross sales of €16.2 billion in 66 international locations.
Scientific exploration and accountable entrepreneurship have been key to Merck’s technological and scientific advances. That is how Merck has thrived since its founding in 1668. The founding household stays the bulk proprietor of the publicly listed firm. Merck holds the worldwide rights to the Merck identify and model. The one exceptions are america and Canada, the place the enterprise sectors of Merck function as EMD Serono in healthcare, MilliporeSigma in life science, and EMD Efficiency Supplies.
